i just installed windoze 98 on a different partion so that i could use it for emulating stuff in wine... but it decided to take over my master boot record now it wont boot. i mannaged to boot to linux with abackup disk i have but i want it back on my master boot record. Ive tried the 'lilo -r /' and '/sbin/lilo -r /' they both give me the same error which is: Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 1st entry 3D address: 1/0/1021 (16402365) Linear address: 1/195/963 (15482880)i am really dont know what to do.... can any one out there help me!?

edit: im running Slackware with the 2.4.19 kernel

Joey

Oct 1 2002, 06:06 AM

what does running plain:

/sbin/lilo

give you?

theio

Oct 1 2002, 01:42 PM

same thing

Joey

Oct 1 2002, 01:47 PM

what are your partitions currently set up like? If you're not sure, run fdisk /dev/hda in linux and hit the letter p, you should see something like this:

?????????????????? LILO INSTALL ERROR # 1 ?????????????????? ? Sorry, but the attempt to install LILO has returned an ? ? error, so LILO has not been correctly installed. ? ? You'll have to use a bootdisk to start your machine ? ? instead. It should still be possible to get LILO ? ? working by editing the /etc/lilo.conf and reinstalling ? ? LILO manually. See the LILO man page and documentation ? ? in /usr/doc/lilo/ for more help. ? ? ? < OK > ? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

sigh *shrug*

Joey

Oct 1 2002, 05:17 PM

hmm, what did you use to partition your drive?

Why does your first partition start at 1025 instead of at 1

/dev/hda1 * 1025 5168 31328640 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Maybe this is what is causing lilo to break..

theio

Oct 1 2002, 08:43 PM

good call, i deleted the windows partition and remade it... works great now! Thanks man

Joey

Oct 1 2002, 09:03 PM

No prob

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